New York is a city that likes to forget it’s surrounded by water. Each spring, as the sidewalks thaw and we re-emerge, blinking, into the natural world, there are plenty of opportunities to rediscover the city’s ample waterfront: New York … Continue reading
To the list of “nobody goes there, it’s too crowded” New Yorker lore, add another entry: Don’t go to the Williamsburg waterfront on Saturdays. That’s when, April through November, the foodie heaven known as Smorgasburg descends on East River State … Continue reading
As the U.S. Tennis Association prepared to submit plans this spring for another expansion of its 35-year-old National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, some members of Queens Community Board 8 cried foul. “You wouldn’t do this to Central Park, … Continue reading
The week before last, rumors began cropping up that Major League Soccer’s long-running search for a place to put a new New York City team — a search that had circumnavigated the boroughs from Pier 40 in the West Village … Continue reading
The wrecking ball (or rather, the backhoe) has arrived at Yankee Stadium: While the World Champion Yankees are fighting their way through lower Manhattan traffic this morning, a more somber ceremony is taking place in the Bronx, where the demolition … Continue reading
Yesterday was the third anniversary of the demolition of Macombs Dam Park to make way for the Yankees’ new stadium, and work on replacement parks is still far off in the distance: As anyone who’s been to a game at … Continue reading
The Yankees have started removing the turf from their old stadium — could demolishing the House That Ruth Built itself be imminent? The long wait in the Bronx may be close to an ending: A WCBS radio news helicopter flew … Continue reading
When is a park not a park? When it’s a parking lot. Readers of today’s New York Daily News (the Bronx edition, anyway) saw a lovely 1960s-vintage photo of a park near Yankee Stadium, accompanied by a report that the … Continue reading
The new stadiums for the Mets and Yankees are a year away from completion, and they’re costing less and creating fewer headaches for local residents than expected. Just kidding! When Mets and Yankees fans arrive for the start of the … Continue reading
Barely two weeks after I wrote about the rising public costs of the new Yankees stadium, those costs have risen yet again: Baseball may be a game of numbers, but this is ridiculous: Sports fans (or just concerned taxpayers) who … Continue reading